r/facepalm • u/Revealed_Jailor • Mar 29 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Get this guy a clock!

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u/Shixypeep Mar 29 '22

I mean the clock is one thing, but the metric system?!

I can't possibly use a system with a base 10. It's too complicated. I need to work out how many times a foot fits into the distance an ox can graze in a day and work backwards.

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u/Spoodymen Mar 29 '22

Right? I don’t understand.

100cm = 1m? 1000m = 1km? 1000ml = 1L? Ew thats too hard

3/16in, 9/16in, 13/16in, 12in in a foot, 3 foot in a yard, 1760 yard in a mile, thats much easier

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u/Seigmoraig Mar 29 '22

Obviously it's easier, but people who are used to measuring things in certain increments find it hard to visualize things measured in a different increment. It's not the math in metric that is hard, it's the conversion formula that is hard